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Your Plan B Against the AI Layoff Trend

Posted on Thursday, Oct 30th 2025

AI may not replace all engineers. AI may not replace all job functions. AI WILL vastly reduce headcount at all sizes of companies. What do you do for your Plan B?

AI will downsize engineering.

AI will downsize marketing.

AI will downsize sales.

AI will downsize customer support.

You will face a layoff. 

You need a Plan B.

Good news: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck is a viable and intelligent Plan B.

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Validate.

Don’t quit your job yet.

Don’t write code until you validate.

Build. Sell. Achieve Product-Market Fit. 

Iterate. Rinse. Repeat. 

Achieve Velocity.

Voila, your plan B is now robust.

Getting fired is no longer a problem!

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Now someone wants to fire you. What do you do?

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